Participants
Meet the experts driving this programme forward
Partners & Leadership
Fabricia Beltramini
Senior Manager Digitalisation & Innovation
TÜV Nord Group
Robert Harrison
Strategic Consultant
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Adrian Mahlkow
CEO
OpTecBB
Gerrit Rössler
Head of Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology
Speakers
Luis Barbosa
Defence Industry & Space Tech
European Defence Fund
Remi de La Vieuville
Head of Quantum HPC
Alice & Bob
Stephen Duffy
CEO, Digital and Semiconductor BU
TÜV Nord Group
Benoît Fosseprez
General Partner
AVP Capital
Michael Hofstetter
Head of Quantum Sensing Initiative
SPRIN-D
Michael Jobst
Investment Partner
Vsquared Ventures
Helmut Katzgraber
Chief Science Officer & General Partner
55 North
Cecile Perrault
Vice President
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Jeremy Picot-Clemente
Optics & Optical Systems
EPIC Photonics
Olivier Rousseaux
Director Venture Development
imec
Enrique Sanchez Bautista
Secretariat of HL Board of Quantum
Quantum Flagship
Stephan Schulze
Investment Director
IBB Ventures
William Stevens
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
Christian Trefzger
Quantum Tech & High Performance Computing
European Commission, DG CNECT
Juha Vartiainen
Co-Founder & Chief Global Affairs Officer
IQM
Nils Wuytens
Program Director
VITO
Scale-Up Speakers
Carlos Abellan
CEO & Co-Founder
Quside
Duncan Casey
Business Development Lead
MBryonics
Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard
Chief Commercial Officer
Sparrow Quantum
Kevin Fuechsel
Managing Director & CEO
Quantum Optics Jena
Olga Fusseder
Head of Sales DACH & CEE
Multiverse Computing
Philippe Notton
CEO & Founder
SiPearl
Arthur Pathe
Finance & Strategy Manager
OQ Technology
Enrique Solano
CEO
Kipu Quantum
Balazs Szekeres
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Perciv AI
Maud Vinet
CEO & Co-Founder
Quobly
Expert Panel
Ekaterina Almasque
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
BlankPage Capital
Xavier Aubry
Founder
ZAZ Ventures
Antony Baker
Principal
Claret Capital Partners
Daria Batukhtina
Senior Manager Strategic Business Development
Kubota Holdings Europe
Thomas Belaid
Manager Investments
SAFRAN Corporate Ventures
Eric Belhaire
Technical Director, Senior Expert
Thales
Silvia Bensel
Senior Innovation Manager Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology
Mike Beunder
Managing Partner & Founder
TD Shepherd & Co.
Jose Brito
Coordination Quantum Technologies
OpTecBB
Quentin Calleja
Principal
Atlantic VC
Olga Chabr Grillova
General Partner
Luminova Ventures
Richard Clarke
Director General
PHABULOuS Pilot Line
Mike Collet
Managing Partner
Promus Ventures
Marco Cravetto
DeepTech Venture Capital
LIFTT
Emmanuel Daugeras
Partner
Karista
Lorenzo De Angeli
Principal
Matterwave Ventures
Klaas de Boer
Chairman
QFWventures
Jean-Michel Deligny
Chair, Investment Committee
Triple B
Kevin Donnelly
Entrepreneurship Manager
Enterprise Ireland
Ted Elvhage
Founding Partner
Expansion Ventures
Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner
Almaz Capital
Paul Gillespie
Managing Director
Sheffield Haworth
Estelle Godard
Principal
Red River West
Curt Gunsenheimer
Managing Partner
IRIS Capital
Ion Hauer
Principal
APEX Ventures
Guillaume Haviland
Co-Founder
Edge.40
Tom Haywood
Partner
24Haymarket
Claas Heise
Executive Director
NRW Bank
Isabella Hermann-Schoen
Managing Partner
Round2 Capital Partners
Thomas Heurung
Technical Director EMEA
Siemens ADA
Oliver Kahl
Principal
MIG Capital
Okan Kara
Managing Partner
ACT Venture Partners
Petri Laine
Managing Partner
Innovestor Ventures
Steven Lambert
Investment Partner Digital
Capricorn
Jerome Leclanche
Managing Partner
Seven Capital
Jose Luis Gomez
Principal
Bullnet Capital
Willi Mannheims
Managing Partner
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners
Laura Mendera
Director Business Development
CLEAR Corporate Finance
Jari Mieskonen
Managing Partner
Conor Venture Partners
Bernhard Mohr
Managing Director
Evonik Venture Capital
Aleksander Mokrecki
Managing Partner
TangentLine Ventures
Novica Mrdovic-Vianello
General Partner
Mountain X
Falk Mueller-Veerse
Managing Director
Stifel
Kreske Nickelsen
Partner
Kineo Finance
Stuart Nicol
Chief Investment Officer
Quantum Exponential
Bernard Ochs
Board Member
Acer Finance
Pawel Pacek
Head of Public Affairs
Balnord VC
Paul Pietrangelo
Managing Partner
Lira
Yuriy Romanyukha
Managing Partner
TA Ventures
Anastasia Sagaidachna
Senior Investment Manager
Foresight Ventures
Gonçalo Sarmento
Defence & Security Investments
33N Ventures
Carl Savage
ESA & Quantum Business Incubation Programme Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Joerg Sommer
Managing Partner
Felsen Ventures
Natalia Stolyarchuk
Head of Future Computing & Microelectronics
Bitkom
Enzo Terrier
Tech Growth Equity
Move Capital
Isabelle Veil
Investors Relations, Growth & Corporate Venture
Systematic Paris-Region
Taavi Veskimagi
Chairman
Council of Estonian Defense & Aerospace Industry Association
James Wilson
Senior Vice President
Silverpeak
Matthias Winter
Managing Partner
Constructor Capital
Maciej Zasada
Vice President
OTB Ventures
Christian Ziach
Principal
High-Tech Gruenderfonds
Expert Guests
Carson Bradbury
Co-Founder, Cre8Ventures Initiative
Siemens EDA
Franz Derler
Venture & Growth Capital, Senior Investment Advisor to the EIC Fund
European Investment Bank
Hans Dieter Tholl
IRT Advisory Partner
Marcus Erken
Founding Partner
Sunfish Partners
Flemming Lentfer
Director
FLOET Consulting
Susana Oliveira
Startups and Scaleups Funding & Investor Relations
ZAZ Ventures
Online Academy Coaches
Riccardo Aimerito
Co-Founder & Partner
ERA Kapital
Daniel Auriel
Head of Growth Services
EIT Digital
Karan Bagai
Co-Founder
BrisQ